September, 2017

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4 Clever Ways to Market Your Board Game Online for $30.00

Brand Game Development

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here. Highways & Byways is nearly complete. It still needs some art and I’ll want to do lots of double-blind play-testing. Yet I don’t see it dramatically deviating from the framework it currently follows.

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Heat Signature Is Out!

Tom Francis

Or you can buy it from the Humble Store. Supporter’s Edition. There’s also a Supporter’s Edition, which comes with a bunch of fun extras: Play through Heat Signature’s development with 8 early prototypes from its 3.5 year development. Watch 9 developer commentary videos showing and explaining its evolution: from drilling through hulls to liberating empires.

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Patreon: First goal achieved!

Mircosoft Game Dev

Patreon campaign. A little bit over a month ago we launched a Patreon campaign to improve our funding. The first goal, which is allowing me to work full time on the project, has been just met, which is amazing!! Thanks to everyone who helped and contributed, your support is heart-warming and goes far beyond what we imagined! (And, for the backers of higher tiers, we'll setup the various rewards for September soon, once we settle on the best way to do it!).

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We’re superproud of the new Chinese language edition of “Slay.

Game Writing Blog

We’re superproud of the new Chinese language edition of “Slay the Dragon!” Ordering details coming soon!

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Observer – Podcast – Dein Sonntag

Rat King Blog

Observer ist purer Cyberpunk im Krakau der Zukunft. Da das Spiel vom "Layers of Fear"-Team Bloober entwickelt wurde, darf man hier kein typisches Adventure erwarten. Auch diesmal steht wieder ein durchgeknallter Gang durch Räume voller weirder Charaktere, Effekte und einer Auseinandersetzung über den Verlust der Menschlichkeit durch Konzerne und Körpermodifikationen auf dem Programm.

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How to Choose Your Board Game’s Theme

Brand Game Development

Board games can be about all sorts of things. You can conquer nations, build cities, explore space, solve mysteries, and so much more. Games, at their core, might just be a series of mechanics and rules, but themes keep us from feeling like we’re playing out the logical conclusion of mathematical functions. Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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5 Games to Make You a Better Board Game Dev for $64.63

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Getting started in board game development can be both intimidating and expensive. I’m almost certainly not the only blogger you’ve looked to for advice, and I can probably guess one thing you get told a lot: “play more games!” (Yeah, gee thanks, Sherlock.). Need help on your board game? Join my community of over 2,000 game developers, artists, and passionate creators.

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How to Tell When Play-Testing Feedback is Useful or Not

Brand Game Development

Dev Diary posts are made to teach game development through specific examples from my latest project: Highways & Byways. Just here for Highway s & Byways updates? Click here. Play-testing is so critical in board game development that I’ve dedicated several articles to the subject. Yet I’ve never seen article that deals with one of the biggest issues with play-testing: being able to tell the difference between signal and noise.

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A Leftfield Solution To An XCOM Disaster

Tom Francis

This story starts exactly like the last great mission I had in an XCOM game : I kinda took on two missions at once. And everyone got tired from the first one, so we had to send our B-team on the other: to rescue a VIP. – Part 1: The Fight. Almost immediately, they run into our first ever Sectopod – a giant, insanely tough walker. Everyone focused on it, and we got it down low.

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Let's build great docs for 3.0! Write the Docs every week-end

Mircosoft Game Dev

Update: one month later. After 5 docs sprints, the class reference went up from 35% to 60% complete ! We run Write the Docs events every week-end on the #documentation channel on Discord. 3 steps to become a Contributor. Read the Contributor's Guide. Follow the Writer's Guidelines. Use the shared pad to tell us what you're working on. Original post.

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A Crash Course on Kickstarter for Board Games

Brand Game Development

Kickstarter. The name alone evokes a lot of feelings in hopeful entrepreneurs and board gamers alike. Whether or not you’ve backed or started a campaign, you probably have an opinion about the site. At the very least, you probably share the sort of ogling fascination that people inevitably experience when they first hear about the site. Kickstarter – Maker and Breaker of Dreams.

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Heat Signature’s Launch, And First Player Legend

Tom Francis

I reshuffled this post a bit so I can link this part more easily: Update On The Everything Gun. It’s been great to see how much people are loving this very silly weapon , and how excited people are to send us shots of them finding it. One thing I didn’t forsee was that for a small number of people, it could cause anxiety: the fear of missing out, or even when they have it, the fear of somehow losing it.

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Godot 3's renderer design explained

Mircosoft Game Dev

Godot uses a considerably different approach to rendering (and rendering abstraction) than other, popular, game engines. The motivation behind it was not to achieve the maximum performance in extreme use cases, but accomodate better to most user's needs. This document was written in hopes to find more developers that would like to help us write rendering code, as it explains the overall design.

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Heat Signature Release Date And Launch Celebrations

Tom Francis

Heat Signature will be out on Steam 21st of September 2017 ! At time of writing, that’s Thursday of next week. It’s for Windows PCs, other platforms will depend on how this one goes. We don’t do pre-order bonuses because I don’t want to pressure you to buy before reviews are out. But I am super grateful to those who buy at launch, because our whole future depends on how we do that first week.

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